A study on a fast measuring technique of wavefront using a Shack–Hartmann sensor.pdf

Optics Laser Technology 34 (2002) 687– 694 /locate/optlastec A study on a fast measuring technique of wavefront using a Shack–Hartmann sensor Seung-Kyu Parka ;∗, Sung-Hoon Baika a b , Cheol-Jung Kim , Sung Woong Ra a Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Dujin-Dong 150, Yusong, Daejon 305-353, South Korea b Department of Electronic Engineering, Chungnam University, Gung-Dong 220, Yusong, Daejon 305-764, South Korea Received 22 March 2002; received in revised form 15 July 2002; accepted 29 July 2002 Abstract The measuring resolution and speed for wavefront are important to improve the performance of an adaptive optics system. In this paper, we propose a fast measuring technique with high resolution in the Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor. The proposed measuring technique of wavefront combines the conventional center of mass algorithm with an estimated weighting factor. The estimated weighting factor is a real value anticipating the real center of mass in a wavefront spot image. This estimated weighting factor can be calculated at the initialization step of an adaptive optics system. We designed a robust adaptive optics system with this proposed measuring algorithm. The measuring accuracy and speed are investigated by using the proposed algorithm compared with the conventional center of mass algorithm in experiments. ? 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Shack–Hartmann sensor; Fast measurement of wavefront; Esti